3D Nano Wineglass Created By NEC

Capt. Mondo writes: "Just found this press release on NEC's Web site featuring a wine glass with a diameter of 2,750 nanometers. Normally this sort of thing would make me think it's some silly holiday-themed publicity stunt for nanotech -- like the world's smallest ad placed on a bee for guinnessworldrecords.com -- but the fact that NEC is claiming to have a new process for creating nano-sized objects in 3D (with the "glass" being the result) makes this a bit more interesting. Apparently the new process uses an ion beam with a diameter of 10nm, a gas containing the base material for construction and good ol' CAD. "

Comments

Re:Wineglass?

[kaoshin]

Thats not a wineglass. It's a grail. They are showing thier faith.

Re:Why a wine glass?

[Wah]

the teapot wouldn't render and making a beer-mug that small would have defied all logic.
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obligatory commercial immitation

[matija]

One nanosized wineglass: $120 000
Micromaniuplators for handling it: $50 000
A bottle of very fine Wine: $100
The look on the policeman's face when he reads your blood alcohol level after you tell him you had "10 glasses of wine": priceless

News for Nerds??

[Mononoke]

If this were really news for nerds, you'd be talking about a nano beer mug.

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Depends how you define "nanometer"

[IntelliTubbie]

The press release says that "one nanometer is one-millionth of a meter." But isn't 1 nm = 10^-9 m = 1 billionth of a meter? It also says that a micron is "one-thousandth of a meter," which I thought was a millimeter.